July of 2012

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Working conditions in hotels need improvement

Labour Ministry

Jul 22, 2012 1 mins read 387 views
Royal Botanical Garden: Serbithang's growing business

Plants

Jul 22, 2012 1 mins read 444 views
Nganglam to get its own fuel station

Fuel

Jul 22, 2012 2 mins read 374 views
Good move to delink prison management and fire services

Letter to the editor

Jul 22, 2012 2 mins read 375 views
The habeas corpus clause

Editorial

Jul 22, 2012 2 mins read 389 views
Motithang Higher Secondary School: Caretaker assaulted

Crime

Jul 22, 2012 1 mins read 379 views
Green disposable bags go bust or missing

Waste

Jul 22, 2012 1 mins read 399 views
Slow server delays security clearance service

Security Clearance Service

Jul 22, 2012 1 mins read 465 views
10th (& Final) Session: No new bills (save urgent ones)

Parliament

Jul 22, 2012 3 mins read 378 views
Land substitute: For want of a space at the dumpsite

Land

Jul 22, 2012 3 mins read 373 views
Sherig Century: The Trashigang school

Trashigang school

Jul 20, 2012 5 mins read 0 views
Samtse Embezzlement Case: The 10-month sentence stands

Judiciary

Jul 20, 2012 2 mins read 446 views
A regulation to redress unfair recruitment process

Labour Ministry

Jul 20, 2012 1 mins read 439 views
Dodeyna Auction: Almost a million paid for a kilo of the best quality

Cordyceps

Jul 20, 2012 2 mins read 357 views
Phuentsholing Thromde: Pekershing has lost patience

Urban

Jul 20, 2012 3 mins read 406 views
The fault lines in the body politic Part I

Perspective

Jul 20, 2012 4 mins read 417 views
S/J Vegetable Growers: Heavy rains drown hopes of bumper crop

Monsoon

Jul 20, 2012 3 mins read 366 views
Missing trucker found killed in Malbazaar

Missing

Jul 20, 2012 1 mins read 404 views
Kurichhu: River takes away a student

Missing

Jul 20, 2012 1 mins read 405 views
Century Celebration: Setting up a Sherig museum

Sherig museum

Jul 20, 2012 1 mins read 422 views
Award system to motivate civil servants

RCSC

Jul 20, 2012 1 mins read 368 views
Gelephu & Tsirang: 150 families receive census kidu

King Visits

Jul 20, 2012 1 mins read 437 views
Sherig Century: The Trashigang school

Trashigang school

Jul 20, 2012 15 mins read 431 views
Are RAPA artistes being victimised by RCSC?

RAPA

Jul 20, 2012 2 mins read 471 views
Batpalathang & Yonphula: Runway resurfacing remains on hold

Aviation

Jul 20, 2012 1 mins read 416 views
Retrospective collection of Green Tax

Letter to the editor

Jul 20, 2012 1 mins read 416 views
The timing and the turnout

Editorial

Jul 20, 2012 2 mins read 384 views
Right to Information: If you want to know, then have your say

Media

Jul 20, 2012 3 mins read 405 views
Elections 2013: NA Poll Dates: Not the best political climate?

Election

Jul 20, 2012 3 mins read 456 views
Highway opened

Highway

Jul 20, 2012 0 mins read 392 views
Ngo Moenlam

Late King Anniversary

Jul 20, 2012 0 mins read 416 views
300 first responders trained for emergencies

Disaster management Department

Jul 19, 2012 1 mins read 331 views
Rupee Shortage: ADB throws local banks a lifeline

Rupee crunch

Jul 19, 2012 1 mins read 384 views
Jangsa Animal Saving Trust: Unclaimed stray cattle put out to Tsirang pasture

Jangsa Animal Saving Trust

Jul 19, 2012 1 mins read 405 views
Camera Traps: Wildlife, wildlife, everywhere

Wildlife

Jul 19, 2012 2 mins read 447 views
Human Papilloma Virus: The man behind the cervical cancer cure

Vaccine

Jul 19, 2012 4 mins read 479 views
Signs of a modern society going to seed

Letter to the editor

Jul 19, 2012 2 mins read 418 views
Shedding the symbols with the seat?

Editorial

Jul 19, 2012 2 mins read 413 views
Eleventh Plan: Gender responsive budgeting

Workshop

Jul 19, 2012 2 mins read 524 views
Salvage : Wangduephodrang Dzong: Veritable treasure trove recovered

Wangduephodrang Dzong Fire

Jul 19, 2012 2 mins read 437 views
Khaling, Trashigang: Danglingtso is drying up

Ecology

Jul 18, 2012 1 mins read 386 views
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ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་མ་ལང་མི་དེ་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་ ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་ག་གི་འཐུས་ཤོར་ཨིན་ན།

༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལངམ་སྦེ་མེད་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ས་མཚམས་ཕྱི་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།

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